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Judge: Dash cam not subject to Okla. open records laws

Vitaeus

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The dash cam footage would be available as evidence in a court proceeding. That it would not be available to anyone is a privacy issue. Allowing anyone to have access to others interaction with the police would be an invasion of the private citizen. As long as the recording is available to support legal proceedings, that is enough in my opinion, yours may vary.
 

Grapeshot

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The dash cam would IMO be evidence that could be subpoenaed for a trial - edited to only show the interaction with you.
 

amzbrady

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The dash cam would IMO be evidence that could be subpoenaed for a trial - edited to only show the interaction with you.

Wouldnt it be awesome if there were live dash cam links where you could view officers real time while they are on patrol, and recorded dash cams up to a week back stored that you could review from a specific time and date?
 

HandyHamlet

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The dash cam footage would be available as evidence in a court proceeding. That it would not be available to anyone is a privacy issue. Allowing anyone to have access to others interaction with the police would be an invasion of the private citizen. As long as the recording is available to support legal proceedings, that is enough in my opinion, yours may vary.

So I guess we should have no access to court documents, arrest records, police reports, mug shots... Why stop there? How about no more 911 calls.

No access to dash cam recordings means no news reports on police corruption, false arrests, excessive use of force... No more police videos of OCers getting arrested for exercising their 2A right.

What about the hundreds of dash cam videos that were posted BEFORE there was a trial? Videos that forced investigation and then litigation?

:banghead:



Guess we never should have been able to see this. Because it was an invasion of a private citizen's privacy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkLkLgNz71o

or this....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgoFjDMbMxA

or this... Never would have seen the light of day because there was no court proceeding.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kassP7zI0qc

Claremore Police Chief Stan Brown testified that it would be a "travesty of justice" for videotapes to be a part of the Open Records Act, saying that some contain the most "intimate, personal, private information of a person's life."

I guess this is what he means.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1joImpo4l0




Should I continue?
 
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